I accidentally sent a flirty and provocative text meant for just my husband to a group text with my inlaws. I quickly got a private text from my husband panicked telling me that I made the mistake of putting that in a group text. My inlaws pretended they didn't see it, but they acted a little awkward around me for a few days lmao.

My son in law has the same name as his dad. He and both of his parents had a group chat going for quite some time.
One day he got a text in that group, from his mom, telling daddy that if he’s a real good boy today there would be a sweet treat just for him when he gets home. His dad replied asking if she’s baking today. Mom said not baking, but “I’m hot for you”.
SIL was mortified.

Yeah, I was mostly joking about the first sentence. I’ll probably use this one myself if it ever happens to me. Sometimes, even if the other person knows it’s a white lie, it can still work to avoid awkwardness, if they play along.

It's pretty believable, in part because it's so random. It stems from the actual situation happening where my texts were in fact sending out of order and I sent a screenshot to show the person I was talking to. It kind of clicked that it would feel just as casual even if I’d accidentally sent the screenshot. No one has ever questioned it.

I agree. Happens to me all the time. It’s definitely believable. I sometimes send screenshots because my phone wont read an emoji they sent or something. But I just meant now that I know about this, if I get a text like that, I’ll know it might just be a save. In which case, I’d be able to actually try to play along and find a way to subtly make the person feel less embarrassed in case they are, instead of just being oblivious to it.

That’d just be cruel. I make it a point never to assume someone is bullshitting without concrete proof. And even then, why should I throw someone under the bus who cares enough to analyze our conversations with a friend? To me, that just says they like me, which would be an ego boost. If I’m interested in the person, I’d wanna return the favor and make talking to me easier for them. But that’s just me.

Oh my gosh, I did something similar in high school. My ex broke up with me over text (as 15 year olds do), so drama ensued afterwards in our messages. Screen shots weren’t a thing then, so I typed a big summary to my friend and accidentally sent it to him. There was no recovery. I just owned it and was like “yeah that was meant for [friend]. You’re being a dick so I wanted to tell her.” I don’t remember what his response was unfortunately. Probably just “okay” or something dumb.

Personally, I probably would’ve been flattered. Generally speaking, when I text, I dont text things that’d reflect poorly on me, so I don’t mind a woman showing others our texts. I usually expect it if she’s interested in me.

On regular messenger, if you realize what you’ve done right after you press “send” but before it’s “delivered” you can use the quick step to set your phone to airplane mode, and then the picture will not be “delivered”. This worked for me when I sent my ex a screenshot of a text that said ex had just sent me...meant to send to my best friend.

So I did something similar which was soo cringey Instead of screenshoting, I just typed out his last message as my friend asked what his last message was. However, I typed it out as I was reading it in the text trail from him and sent it to him. I also just owned up 🤦‍♀️

Go to your list of stories or your current one. In the bottom left corner there is an “eye” icon that shows who has seen your story — even the order of who saw it first. Next to their name it will say if they replayed it. Idk if it says how many times they replayed it but it shows you replayed it.

I did a very similar thing, but I’d just gotten a newer iPhone and I’d been vocal about having a problem screen shotting things instead of just locking my phone. The way I hold/lock my phone used to work well for the iPhones with the home buttons, but is how you screenshot with the iPhone XS I currently have. I just made sure to be super vocal about it for a while after so he thought I was just a complete idiot. I’m more comfy being a complete idiot.

I took a snap chat screen shot of the first time the guy I was seeing said "you're not just my girl you're my best friend" because I really did want to keep that memory. Almost two years later and we're still dating and we're still best friends. Good luck, I hope it works out just as well for you!

I double texted a dude with like a litany of questions of all the small things he'd mentioned he might do after we parted ways after a 2-day date. It was like,

"Haha yeah have a nice day at work!"

"Hey, so did you apply for that job? Did you have a tomato salad? Were the tomatoes ripe? Did you catch the last ep of [local TV show we used to watch]? Still planning that trip to Croatia?"

omg I came on way too strong, I swear I wasn't as obsessed with him but that litany of questions makes it sound like I was memorizing his every word. He ghosted me for two weeks, then came back with "yeah I got the job but things got busy, I don't think I can focus on dating right now". A polite "no" but fine, whatever, at that point I knew what was up. I deleted his number, deleted him off my social media and that was that.

Let me reassure you, and not reassure you at the same tkme. It's quite dorky. But it is really cute as well. I want to know everything about everyone and I want to know what makes you tick. I try to pay attention to what people say and ask them questions about things they said. So if someone does the same for me, my heart melts instantly.

Do you really ask five detailed non-sequitur questions in a row of people you're just getting to know, though? Just shotgun style, without waiting for a response to one question (or questions within a similar vein of thought) before asking another?

Omg I’ve done this! I’m like a detective when I get to know someone, I love asking questions and I have no filter. I’ll just straight up ask someone what they had for lunch or whatever. Hilarious that someone else has scared a dude off the same way.

I am the opposite and dated a guy who would do this. I thought it was adorable and the witty humor was a relief. I loved how he could keep the conversation going. But eventually I would divulge and tell him things that are sensitive or personal to me and then he would go silent. But then would come back around seeming unscathed. Unbelievably mixed signals and eventually did scare me off. But I miss our witty banter.

I think if it'd been a guy I'd been seeing for 3-4 months, not just one month, it'd be different and more welcome. We didn't really know each other yet and in that situation you gotta play it cool, even if you are listening. These kinds of questions at that point are better asked irl, I think.

From friends this would be a normal text, though. Or to a partner you're already dating for a long while.

How long ago was it? (As a male) I have quite aot of female friends who respond 24-48 hours after a text, or completely forget about texting me back. So I tend to wait about 1-2 days before sending a "reminder". My personal opinion with double texting is that you've got almost nothing to lose and a lot to win

A female friend of mine did this to me on a regular basis for three years. She would even send postcards with a litany of small questions. I still didn’t know she liked me the entire time until she asked me out in the end. The friendship kinda died after that.

I have a terrible history of sending texts (specifically pictures) to the wrong people 🤦🏼‍♀️. I recently sent a picture of my ass in some sexy undies not to the guy I’m seeing but to my half sister! I wanted to die, but she took it pretty well. She just said “if you wanna go shopping for undies you just have to ask!”

Most of my close friends have had a sexy photos send from me by accident 🙈, my half sisters ex-bf, my mom. Probably the worst was when I sent one to either my step dad or step mom (lucky I’ve never sent one to my actual dad 🤦🏼‍♀️). I really should pay more attention when I send pictures - especially when drunk. Mostly I don’t know I’ve sent it to the wrong person until they message me back!

I am so paranoid about this that my husband and I use a messaging app instead of text for anything PG-13 and above. He’s the only one I use that app for so it avoids accidentally sending selfies to the wrong person.

i recommend telegram. it's got the ability to sort by links, voice messages, pictures, and videos. and there's a search feature. so you can do a lot with it and it's not hard to find things if you want to go back and look for them without scanning through your whole conversation.

I appreciate the app recommendation, in general. I've wondered if some of my friends and I should move our text conversations to a messaging app because it's all getting so MESSY. I like text for: want to go to dinner? etc, ONLY, ha!

one time an old roommate of mine sent me a mirror pic of herself in just panties and said "this is the only thong i own", she meant to send it to her bf and was mortified after realising she sent it to me. we kind of hated each other so it was worse for her cause she felt really embarrassed.

I've never personally done this but I have had it done to me before and it was honestly the most awkward experience ever. My cousins husband had messaged me a happy birthday one time on Facebook and then a day later he accidentally sent me a picture of his genitals with the caption, "How about you hurry up off the treadmill and hurry up onto my ****?"

It was mortifying. I made my husband delete it for me so that I didnt have to look at it for even a second longer. Thankfully they live in another province so I dont ever have to see them in person but I think you have gotten so lucky that that was just to your sister and that it wasnt a worse picture.

Hah been there done that. Luckily she had stoppsed listening to my nonsensical audios before it got really embarassing and I had to just delete them the next and pretend nothing happened. Wanted to bury my head on the ground for a while.

It was finals week in the fall semester. My coworker, who I had a massive crush on, was finishing classes. I sent him a text that said "good luck on finals! 😊" But then I overthought it, telling myself "you're coming on too strong! Bail!" I saw him in person later that day and, like a moron, acted disinterested and said, "by the way, that text was meant for my friend, not for you." He just laughed and said, "aw, and I had thought you were being sweet."

I wished him luck again during spring finals with no incident this time.

It was around finals week in the fall semester. My coworker, who I had a massive crush on, was finishing classes. I sent him a text that said "good luck on finals! 😊" I overthought it, telling myself "you're coming on too strong! Bail!" I saw him in person later that day and, like a moron, acted disinterested and said, "by the way, that text was meant for my friend, not for you." He just laughed and said, "aw, and I had thought you were being sweet."

It was around finals week in the fall semester. My coworker, who I had a massive crush on, was having finals. I sent him a text that said "good luck on finals! 😊" I overthought it, telling myself "you're coming on too strong! Bail!" I saw him in person later that day and said, "that text was meant for my friend, not for you." He laughed and said, "aw, and I had thought you were being sweet."

This is what some women consider as coming on too strong? I wonder how would it be possible to establish any kind of romantic relationship for me with a girl who considers something like that as too much, hmm.

My current husband admitted to rescheduling an early date with me in the very beginning because he overthought that he was asking me to hang out too much and coming on too strong so he pretended he was busy and had to push our date 😂

The reverse of this happened to my friend in college. We were both in this fairly miserable freshman writing seminar and disliked the professor. We realized she felt the same way about us when an email from the prof, intended for her sister and absolutely ripping on this one student in her seminar and all his pretentious questions - my friend - landed in his inbox instead of hers.

Same reply, just an ice cold "This went to the wrong person" and she couldn't make eye contact with him for the rest of the semester.

Was their any constructive criticism in the text? Maybe he learned something from what you disliked and you actually helped him change things or do better. Sometimes the truth hurts but it can help people.

Oh wow, I haven't texted a professor, but I have very loudly proclaimed how stupid and unhelpful a professor was while he was in the next room (open door). I was pretty frustrated because he kept suggesting I change the subject of a project after doing preliminary research on like 2 or 3 subjects. Eventually I just decided to stop asking for his input lol but I felt awful about venting my frustrations where he could hear. So I can commiserate :(

Last week I sent a text for work. It was a credit card number. But I didn’t crop it. I sent the entire page of credit and banking information. Account numbers the works. Basically saying “hey here’s everything you need to steal 10s of thousands of dollars”. It was the VP’s personal AND corporate accounts.

What happened was the executive assistant went to the catering pickup without the card and asked me to send the info. So I did.

TO A WRONG NUMBER.

I about died for like 10 minutes and then I looked up in white pages and saw that it was a landline and it’s been a week and so far nobody has stolen thousands of dollars so I think I’m in the clear.

When I realized it was the wrong number I texted the right number and said “before I send you the info please confirm it’s you” and my stupid fucking coworker said “yes it’s me” instead of “yes, it’s Name” so then I had to call to confirm cause I sure as hell wasnt gonna send it to a wrong number a second time.

Accidentally sent my income tax information and my SSN to my coworkers instead of my brother...

I felt like my life was over, I immediately begged them to delete it from the conversation and their phone memory and to provide screenshots to prove that they did. Ugh, I still panic thinking about it.

I recently went through an emotionally charged breakup. There was nothing wrong, things were going well, we just weren't in the place for multiple reasons. We had this nice night together talking about everything and trying to make peace with it, and a few days later I sent him this ridiculous bitter, rude text reeming him out. It was so immature and stupid and unproductive. The second I sent it I felt like I was being that girl that couldn't take "no" for an answer and just wanted to look pathetic and mean. Months later I apologized profusely and he accepted it, said he totally understands it came from a place of hurt, but i still hate myself for acting like that, especially over text.

Ty for writing this because I keep thinking of stupid shit I want to say or stupid questions I want answered since my breakup just happened last night. I’m barely a normal human at work today, and we work at the same company so that makes it harder.

I’m sorry you’re going through this. Make a commitment to yourself to not text or say any of these things you’re thinking yet. Write them down and look at them again in a couple of weeks and then decide if you really want to say them. I hope you’re ok. Hugs to you.

Hey! I've been there and I'm sorry you're hurting so much right now. I downloaded this app called the break up boss that I found super helpful! It gives you advice, builds you up and has a function where you can send texts to your ex without actually sending them. You're strong enough to get through this x

Wow thanks so much, that sounds super helpful. I’ll take a look :) We’d see each other 7 days a week because he’d always at least say bye at my desk, text all the time, and then also chat on our work messenger. It was a bit much sometimes really, but that is a whole lot of communication to have gone overnight. It’s just so weird.

I know exactly what you mean, it's a really big adjustment, the app also sends you "pep peps" which are just cute little reminders about how amazing you are. And I know it's such a cliche but time really does heal!

I had an amicable breakup a couple of years ago, but after a few months of continually hearing about the troubles she was having with her new guy, I wrote her a very pointed email saying exactly how I felt about that, not intending to send it, just to vent. Next day I decided to send it after all and received a very contrite reply.

Sent a picture of a new piece of glass shaped like an elephant to my sisters. Not my picture, but you get the idea. My sisters and I send moronic shit to each other all the time, so I sent a picture of the back with the caption: I smoke out of his butthole.

Turns out I sent it to the family group text... My recovery was smooth as fuck. Texted the group one word: Incense.

Accidentally texted about my boss to my boss instead of to a coworker. As soon as I hit send I realized my mistake. We were all sitting in a meeting and my boss wasn’t speaking up about an issue that was being discussed even though she already solved the issue. The text said “I don’t know why she isn’t saying anything. She just talked to so and so about x, y, z.” My boss texted me back explaining herself.
It. Was. Awkward.

Yes it did. She hadn’t completely solved the issue like I thought but she was in the process of solving. Still think she could have said something but she didn’t. Thankfully I had a great relationship with my boss so it didn’t affect our relationship moving forward.

I had texted a guy I was dating asking if everything was okay because things felt off for the past week and it didn't seem like he was interested anymore. I regretted it mostly because I felt like it made me look insecure or like I was chasing after him like a puppy, whereas it was more me wanting to know if I was wasting my time. But, he admitted that I was right and that we didn't really chat all that much over that week, he was feeling a bit introverted and just wanted some space. We're still casually seeing each other and he's been better at telling me when he needs space.

I had texted a guy I was dating asking if everything was okay because things felt off for the past week and it didn't seem like he was interested anymore. I regretted it mostly because I felt like it made me look insecure or like I was chasing after him like a puppy, whereas it was more me wanted to know if I was wasting my time. But, he admitted that I was right and that we didn't really chat all that much, he was feeling a bit introverted all week and just wanted some space. We're still casually seeing each other and he's been better at telling me when he needs sapce.

I feel you on this, I hate not knowing where I stand with that person. With modern dating, it seems normal to just stop talking to someone for seemingly no reason. And it becomes a competition as to who is less invested, less interested, has less availability. Dating in and of itself is just complicated. Like figuring out when it's okay to start being vulnerable and letting them know how human you are. Sorting out if I want something more or if I want to keep it casual. And if they're on the same page. Dealing with the anxiety of navigating unknown waters. etc etc etc...

LOL I did this exact thing with my boyfriend when we first started seeing each other. He acted super interested in me, but then randomly like week 3 maybe he would just been really short with me and when we hung out in my friend group one night literally did not speak to me very much. It was very strange and a little heartbreaking to me. So I texted him something like, hey do you even like me? He was completely blindsided and I think realized then I’m an emotional person lol We’re still together now tho..3 years and counting and he’s honestly the most loving and caring human I’ve met.

My fiancé sexted me. And I responded quickly on my Apple Watch “mmm sounds so hot, see you soon.” Because I was getting gas and on my way. When I got back in the car I checked my phone and realized I had texted my boss on accident.

He’s a gay man and I have a lot of fun with him. So I just texted “so sorry not for you”
He lol’d and we never mentioned it again. Thank god I was in a hurry to get home and didn’t put more effort into that response.

Not a text but a social media post. Last weekend my husband and I went to Philadelphia to surprise a friend. His girlfriend has planned the whole thing, he had no idea we were coming. They had plans to go see Endgame around 10am on Saturday, so we decided to show up at the theater after it ended to surprise him. Hours earlier I decide to go on a run, come across a cool old mansion, and without thinking post it on my Instagram story with the location. 10 mins later I get a text from my husband saying it was a terrible idea to post that. I also get a text from our friends gf saying "he knows you're in Philadelphia because of your post." Shit. Luckily I travel to various cities fairly frequently for work, so I just said tell him I am in town for a conference.

He totally took the bait tho, so when it was time to surprise him at the theater it worked. Still, his gf was understandably super irritated.

Not sure if this quite fits but... My boyfriend and I were competing against each other to see whose phone would send texts via voice command quicker (Siri vs Google). I accidentally sent “FUCK YOU” (as you do) to my boyfriend’s parents’ landline! I got a very concerned message from bf’s mum that day and completely died from embarrassment. Luckily his parents are pretty chill, they were just worried that we’d had a massive argument. I’ve since moved the landline number to a completely different contact so that it can never happen again.

We had been on and off for 4 years straight and he had just completely cut me off for a new woman he had met. I was obviously very hurt due to still having immense feelings for him and we had started working on things again before he met her so it caught me out of the blue. After a few days of back and forth explanations and apologies, he sent me one last message telling me that he wished me the best and was sorry that things had changed so much once he went back to his college town. Well me being occasionally dramatic, decided to go off on him one last time proclaiming the fact that I’ll “always love him” and I told him to never run back to me again. Let’s just say I should’ve just made my peace and replied in a graceful manner because all his response was “ok well glad we’re on the same page....”

I was embarrassed. However, in my defense, he strung me along for 4 full years because he knew I was always head over heels for him. I just wish I would’ve respected myself more early on and let him go when I knew he was playing with my heart.

I hope you don't feel too embarrassed for this. It's not your fault he strung you along all that time and then led you on while he was seeing someone else. I don't think anything you said to him was especially dramatic or out of line. I'd have gone off on him the same.

Thank you for that. I try not to feel embarrassed about it but it’s hard not to when his responses make me feel like I wish I never said anything. Felt good to go off on him though because I got to say things I’ve been wanting to say for years.

You were honest and he wasn’t. He should be the one embarrassed for being shady. It sucks that modern society deems it uncool to care about someone and be invested in them, but being disrespectful of someone’s feelings is fine. It’s so backwards.

I’ve been there. Not sure if you’ve moved on or not yet, but I met “the one” I really thought the one who strung me along was, but boy was I wrong. I’m so glad he finally let me go even though it tore my heart out. I’m truly happy now and fall more in love everyday. Ya we’re a sappy romcom and it’s the best.

This made me feel so good to read. Glad you found your person after dealing w someone like that! I’m moving on. I’m in a new relationship (on month 3) with someone who’s smart and funny and I know adores me, but not a day goes by where I dont think about my ex. It’s been 5 months since all of it went down, so I know I’m still getting over it. It’s gotten better though. When I’m with my current boyfriend, he makes me forget all about the ex. However, when I’m by myself, overthinking starts eating my alive. Still aches seeing pictures of them together, but they do look happy and the girl is a stunner.

So he has this Guy groupme for him and his buddies and they always send stuff like that to each other, like clickbait things that seem like one thing but you click and it takes you to..a big naked man. He honestly didn’t even realize that he posted it until someone (who was in both groups) called him yelling “WRONG GROUP MAN WRONG GROUP” and at that point it had been like 30 minutes.

I’ve had a pretty extensive history of scarring dating experiences (being cheated on, guys suddenly disappearing overnight after having dated for months, back to back ghostings, etc.) and had pretty much resigned myself to the fact that a long term relationship just wasn’t in the cards for me.

So I had been seeing this guy for a bit and I’m head over heels but I’ve been through this song and dance before and I have my guard up. I get a text from him while I’m at work one day that says "Hey we should talk.” I said I’m free now so can we chat now or can we meet after work? He says we should do this in person. This is par for the course for me and I get where this is headed so I just wrote back, "Obviously this is a breakup conversation so just say what you need to say."

He writes back, "WTF breaking up? Are you serious? I wanted to tell you that I love you and I want you to meet my family..." I felt like such an asshole for ruining his moment and he still doesn’t let me live that down!

Apparently it didn’t even dawn on him that the phrasing was horrible! I apologized profusely since he was pretty upset (and concerned) that I reacted that way but I told him that’s a pretty textbook "I’m breaking up with you" phrase. He still insists there wasn’t any other way to phrase it. I guess it didn’t occur to him to not say anything at all and just tell me that the next time we went out? I dunno lol

I recently had met this guy at work and we went on a couple dates and I felt different about him than all the other guys. This guy I was seeing at the time was only interested in having sex and occasionally talking but we had a good friendship (he was my highschool crush and I couldn't believe I was able to have sex with him in the first place.)

Just 2 days after I met this work guy I told this guy I wanted to break it off because I found someone. He was pissed and told me that I just wanted this other guy because I just wanted a "quick" mormon marriage and engagement (which was not true) and that he was not going to bow down to my needs and get engaged.... he went on for a while and I just kept apologizing and I was crying. Eventually it all stopped.
I cried because I just ruined a great friendship for this guy I just barely met and I felt so lost and confused and regretted ever texting him.

Well this year me and "that random work guy I just met" will be happily married for 4 years.
I regretted it then, but I am so happy I cut it off because he is the love of my life and I am so much better off now.

My boss (we work more as a partnership and have a close relationship) recently sent one intended only for me to me and a coworker. He uses texts as a venting situation off of work email and off of work phones. His phone rang immediately after the text was received by the other person telling him how unprofessional his comment was and wondering how she could help the situation. She didn’t realize the text wasn’t intended for her.

There have actually been a few (minor) ripple effects since that one accidental text message. Always check who the recipients are before hitting send. I’ve always been incredibly paranoid and assume everything I send in a text will eventually be read by everyone, helps me stay kind and check my emotions before hitting that send button.

I sent a long time friend/crush a booty call text right before I left to live overseas for a while. They never responded, which made me regret the text SO HARRRRD and I obviously ceased all communication for like 3 years because, c'mon. Anyways, said friend said they wanted to visit me overseas and at that point I had gotten over my pain and embarrassment and was like 'Hell yea come visit!'. I was a little tipsy at the time of the offer (read: overly sure of myself) because I made sure to insist that the minimum amount of time to truly experience the very remote and beautiful place I was living was 3 weeks. And, you know, my location was such that I was going to have to be his tour guide for the whole time. Once I sobered up, I was not nervous at all. Nope.

Cut the the trip (that I very anxiously insisted to my friends was just a platonic visit from a friend..) and Mr. friend confessed on day one that he'd been in love with me for years and years and came all this way to tell me face to face. His mind boggling rationale for why he never made a move (was too nervous) or texted me back was that he had been so overwhelmed by it all that by the time he had the right response it was 'too late'. Sigh. He'll always be my Gemini over-thinker. Anyways, we eloped a week later and lived happily ever after. And we now send lots of booty call texts to each other, that are never left unfulfilled.

I mean, we still fight and have rough patches and don't understand each other's families.. but we love each other. And somehow it all worked out. Still feels like a tiny, slightly smudgy, unsymmetrical miracle.

FYI if you send a text and realize that you didn’t mean to send it, throwing your phone on airplane mode before it sends will stop it. I then just turn my whole ass phone off because clearly I had enough of it already.

Oh my god, this is honestly one of my biggest fears. My sister-in-law send texts to each other complaining about our shared MIL every so often and I'm so worried that I might somehow accidentally send it to my MIL instead.

I sent a screenshot of my cat to my husband’s stepmom. Since it was on an iPhone it showed the previous/later pics on my camera roll and one of them was a picture of my husband, shirtless, pulling his underwear down slightly. I REALLY hoped she didn’t even notice my camera roll, I didn’t mention it either lol I now know to keep sexy pictures on a separate app on my phone.

I use Google photos for storage on my iPhone. My friend and I just went on a trip for spring break and I took a ton of pics. Google puts the photos together and creates a cute little video with some music. I looked at the first half and loved it; we were going through post vaca blues so I sent her the video. I didn't think to look at the whole clip. So I rewatch it after I sent it and what do you know, the very last photo in the video is a nude with my strong tan lines LMAO. I was kinda embarassed but whatever it was a good pic and we talked about sending nudes to guys while we were on the trip anyway. But yeah, THANKS GOOGLE

I use Google photos for storage on my iPhone. My friend and I just went on a trip for spring break and I took a ton of pics. Google puts the photos together and creates a cute little video with some music. I looked at the first half and loved it; we were going through post vaca blues so I sent her the video. I didn't think to look at the whole clip. So I rewatch it after I sent it and what do you know, the very last photo in the video is a nude with my strong tan lines LMAO. I was kinda embarassed but whatever it was a good pic and we talked about sending nudes to our guys while we were on the trip anyway. But yeah, THANKS GOOGLE

I'm pretty legendary for my text failures (not to brag) the absolute worse one was about 10 years ago when I was a senior I high school. I was taking a freshman dominated class to have a class with my freshman brother and this kid in the class developed a pretty huge crush on me. It was cute and I was flattered by the attention and so I let him flirt at me. But he was so bad and weird but so confident it was hilarious. So hes blowing me up asking me all these questions he shouldn't be and I copied his message and forwarded it to this guy I liked along with a message making fun of him. It went to the wrong person and I have never felt like such a monster in my life.

I was slightly drunk and watching a show and gabbing with friends. We started talking about wars and time periods and couldn't remember the years of the Korean war. I opened my phone and began googling it but I was barely paying attention and typed it into the text box that my phone had opened to and sent the question to a text conversation without realizing. Usually wouldn't be a big deal but I had been texting with my best friend's mom (a second mother to me) and since she is a social studies teacher I knew she would be completely disappointed that I didn't know. My drunk mind trying to think quickly replied before she could respond and said it was an inside joke with friends to ask when the Korean war was. I doubt she bought that.

Admitted to my childhood friendly feelings for him
I regret the next part because later (a few months had gone by and he was short replying almost all of my messages) I texted him this thing saying how I feel like we are distant now and if he didn’t want to be friends anymore that’s okay I just needed to know, he freaked out, we got in a fight and then he never spoke to me again
So I guess I recovered by not having someone like that in my life lmao 🤷🏻‍♂️

i'm a guy but i'll go anyway, the last time i sent a bad text was when i was talking to my best friend and another girl @ the same time. so my best friend and i were just pissing about and she's like what'd you rate me as a joke and at the same time the other girl sent me the same question. meant to send 6 to the other girl (to not hurt her feelings but not give her any ideas either) and -10 to my best friend. sent the -10 to the wrong person :( how did i recover? told her it was an accident but she still doesn't believe it and was pretty pissed

I sent some (thankfully more tame) romantic instaspam to one of my male friends - when I had initially meant to send it to my b/f. I didn't notice for a good week, and then when I finally realized I just owned up to it. I explained my mistake, told him I was very embarrassed, and apologies. It blew over just fine, but I think being completely honest with him helped diffuse it. I'm thankful it was something so tame.

Was sending some booty pics to my boyfriend to show him these new bikini bottoms I got and threw some other nudes in there just for fun. I hit send and immediately realize I sent them to my best friend instead of my boyfriend 🙂 instant regret

This happened in like November, but I still laugh about it. I met a guy on a dating app and didn't want to immediately sleep with him, I wanted to try and make him wait a few dates or whatever. We'd hung out twice and the second time we had gotten a little hot and heavy and I'd even stayed the night in his barracks, but I'd managed to hold off on the sex still up to this point. Well, I was texting both him and my best friend at the same time and I typed a text that said "Fuck me!" like in the context of sort of "I'll be damned!".... except I sent it to the dude by accident. So then I had to awkwardly tell him that the text wasn't meant for him, AND I was using it in a different sense...not ACTUALLY telling anyone to fuck me.

Black Friday shopping with my then-boyfriend, now husband's mother in an attempt to get her to like me. I volunteered to stand in line and check out for everyone while they went for food. Line passes the condom aisle which is half off bc Black Friday. I texted my boyfriend "the condoms we usually buy are half off! If only, if only..." which was intended to say "if only we hadn't just bought more, if only I wasnt shopping with your mother."

Not really regretted, but I was talking to a guy who ended up ghosting me. I sent him a joke just out of habit and he told me he was trying to ghost me. I basically told him thanks for being honest, but next time he does that to someone, to just let the person know you are not interested instead of letting them make a fool of themselves while you roll your eyes at their advances. It makes it a lot less awkward for all parties involved.

I sent my ex a text detailing my biggest insecurity (my physical appearance) and made it apparent that I was jealous of the pretty girl who kept appearing in his pics back when we were together. As far as I'm concerned, he never looked at it nor responded, and I blocked him a day after sending it.

I was texting my potential future employer to schedule a job interview while arguing with my then boyfriend over text at the same time. I basically sent a text meant for my bf instead to my future employer saying something along the lines ‘Don’t call me any more, asshole! Go fuck your whores and delete my number!’ I immediately noticed a mistake in horror and apologized that it was not meant to them but surprisingly they took it easy and I even got the job!

This was years ago, but right after a guy I was seeing broke up with me I sent a text to my friend that said "well, I just got dumped."

At least, I meant to send it to my friend who's name was just beneath the guy's name in my phone. Nope. I sent it to the guy.

The worst part is that he replied with something along the lines of "you will get through this." I wanted to die. The worst part is that I wasn't even all that into him. I was mostly pissed that he broke up with me first and pissed at the way he did it. Pretty sure I drank a bottle of wine that night.

Sent a pissed off drunk text to my poor innocent friend because he's kind of a dumb b**** sometimes lmao. He did something he shouldn't have, that he knew he shouldn't have, so I went off a bit. After sending the text I was like "ugh but he's such a sweet baby, he didn't mean to" and immediately called him and apologized, and also publicly apologized in the group chat where I had originally snapped at him. He was fine, it was fine, everything was fine lol

Lol yeah, it's a good group of buddies I have and we all have our quirks.

I'm sure if you sent a text you regret, it is a WAY bigger deal to you than it is to them and it will all just blow over very soon. Seeing stuff in text that you sent can sometimes make it seem worse than it is, especially if you just. keep. staring at it.

Any time I've been in this situation it's ended up totally fine and super chill, and I've sent some ~ questionable ~ shit lol so I'm sure it'll be fine!!

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After being antagonised again and again by my "best friend" - who would blow up my replies into horrendous "evidence" why I'm not a good enough friend, she apologised for the millionth time. I know that spiel. Two days into not messaging her because I am busy at work or at vacation actually doing stuff and not just look at my screen I would get another "what have I done to you that you don't message me".

I was a dumbass and said "It's okay".
It wasn't. I was just tired of being attacked.

Obviously I didn't get what I hoped to achieve. Long story short: we ain't friends anymore. I could have ended that madness a month earlier there.

One of my cousins had the WORST husband. We shall call him Voldemort (which is what my other cousins and i called him). He was a total narcissist and just had a very assholish personality. We had our group text with all the cousins and we had a separate group text without the cousin married to Voldemort.

Anyway, we were having some get together and I accidentally texted the group text WITH her in it something along the lines of “Cool. At least that a-hole won’t be coming” and she responded with”Hey!” And I felt like a total idiot/jerk and I apologized to her on a separate text.

They are no longer together and I hear that he is still a shitty human being and I sometimes fantasize about anonymously sending him a pile of poop. If you want to do that to someone you can go to https://www.poopsenders.com

I love my family and what I did was a crappy (ha!) thing regardless of what I thought of Voldemort. I’m just happy that she has found an amazing life partner and are excited that they will be having a baby in a few months!

I was in a fight with some girl from school and took a screenshot from the chat to send to my friend. unfortunately I send it back to the girl I was fighting with. I panicked and then wrote "look at how stupid you are" right after I mistakenly sent the screenshot.

I had a break down and texted my ex we are currently on a break right now but I send him a lot of angry messages just calling him out on bullshit it made me seem very insecure and needy and I regretted it a day later. I apologized and he accepted. We haven’t talked about it again.

A few years ago I had to change my phone number. I then sent out mass text messages to all my contacts stating it was me/new number. Anyways I didn't realize that by sending these mass texts to everyone in my contacts list meant that if anyone responded to it everyone apart of the mass text would also get. Anyways, one person I included sent a text back as a joke asking if I was the girl who went on a date with him the other day who was into scat play or something just as ridiculous. This not only was sent to me but a lot of my coworkers and my boss. I was so mortified. I ended up sending everyone from my work who received the message an apology and explained it was a joke.

I posted something on reddit complaining about my mother and it got a lot of upvotes and support from others, so I took a screenshot and accidentally sent it to my mother also without crossing out my user name.

Took a selfie of me with my cat he fell asleep on top of me straight laying down with his little head resting under my chin and his body just perfectly down to my bellybutton.
Long story short I meant to send it to 'mum' and 'sis' but it's sent to a 'simon' I work with instead of 'sis'.

I just yelled SHIT🙀! He didn't text back but at work he brought it up said my cat is adorable. So I just play it out, 'Yuuuush he's my bff'.

I was in a small enough program where I was consistently working with the same people. We would talk at length about never wanting to meet up and constantly pushing things back. Eventually we just started using google docs so we could edit at the same time until we were forced to meet, which we scheduled to be right before class.
So, I feel you.

Oh my gosh I’m so sorry! That’s a long time. There’s nothing I can say to make you feel better except that I just noticed your user name. In my house there is only Rocky 1-4 and Creed. Legend has it that there’s more out there but if said films exist they would be trash anyway. I’m currently wearing my Over the Top t-shirt but almost wore my Ivan Drago one. That’s something. Anyway, I’m sorry again. I hope your heart heals sooner than later. Sending you warm fuzzy Internet hugs and squeezes. I’m pulling for you.

It’s okay. I know things will get better, it’s just going to take a while for my heart to heal as I spent most of my formative years with him but I need to learn to live independently. I too have heard that rumour but have yet to see any evidence… I love it!!! I wore my Rocky t-shirt to work last week! Thank you so much, you are a wonderful person. hugs

I dropped my dog off at a dog sitter I had found online. The trip was last minute, so I hadn't met the guy before. Walk in to drop my dog off and the house is poorly neglected, there's laundry piles in the porch. The house wreaks of weed, there's furniture scattered through the house in strange places and kids toys all over the ground. The guy seemed nice enough, but definitely high and I was concerned with my dog chewing and eating the kids toys.
My flight left in hours though, and I really didn't have a choice.
Flash forward to five days later. Some friends of ours were going to grab our doggo when they got back into town and drop him off at our place as we were getting back super late that night. I go to text them the address but accidently sent a snarky "address, but make sure our dog is alive. Place was super sketchy." To the dog watcher, not my friend.
Never recovered after that one.
Dog watcher was offended and kept telling me he would never hurt my dog.
My friends got my dog okay though--i felt terrible :(
Hyperbole sucks.

A friend of mine set me up with a friend of hers and he texted me to "introduce himself" a couple of days before we were to meet in person. We ended up texting back and forth all during the work day and decided to go ahead and meet up that evening instead. On my home to get ready for our date I attempted to text the friend that set us up but sent it to him instead. The text said "So is this a fuck for fun guy or is he lookin for a lady?". I didn't even realize I'd sent it to him until HE replied, "He's definitely a fuck for fun guy but you never know...". I was mortified. Thankfully, he found a lady whether he was looking or not because it's been 9 years since then and we're still going strong.

My boss was on the phone and i heard her mention my name so I went to message my friend "When Boss mentions you on the phone....ugh" but i sent it to my boss on accident. She took it well and just responded "That doesnt always mean its bad"

When I was in high school I worked as a lifeguard during the summer breaks. Usually me and the other guards would let our friends come hang out and chill.

There was this girl who was friends with a co-worker who would come a lot. I thought she was sooo annoying. I think she developed a crush on me since shed always come, even when her friend wasnt working and hang out with me.

One day there was a storm and we kicked everyone out except the guards and our friends and just hung out. Side note: we would put our belongings in the bathrooms. We were sitting around and I texted my friend, who was there, about how annoying and stupid this girl was to me. A couple minutes go by and I ask if he got any text. He says no. And I ask are you sure? I check my phone and am mortified that I sent the text to her. And shes right there!!! Luckily though, she didn't have her phone. With some quick thinking I grab the keys to the bathrooms, go into the girls bathroom and lock the door behind me with everyone outside wondering what I'm doing. I find her phone in her bag and thank God, she didn't have a passcode to unlock it (this was flip phone days). Found the message and deleted it. Crisis averted 😎

My boss and my sister have the same first name. When it was my birthday month I sent a text message saying "hey hoe, it's my birthday month. I expect chocolates, flowers and the new morphe eye shadow palette" after I sent it I knew immediately that it was my boss instead of my sister and freaked out.

I sent a message shortly after apologizing and explaining that it was meant as a joke for my sister. She laughed it off and said she figured it wasn't for her.

When it was my birthday about 2 weeks later my boss actually came in and brought me flowers, chocolates and a cake. She was the sweetest lol

My cousin had sent me a Snapchat about something really funny her boyfriend did to her and I meant to reply back to her saying “I wish my bf was that funny” as a joke and I sent it to my boyfriend by accident :/

I sexting with my hubby and I accidentally sent some grafic gifs to a group text with my parents and siblings. I had a complete panic attack, ignored the confused responses from my family. After an hour or so I finally responded and told them that I had forgot my phone at a gas station and someone had sent dirty stuff to everyone in my recent messages. Thank god they forgot my phone is password protected.

I worked in sales for a while and had a coworker who would consistently walk up while I was in an interaction with a customer and basically try to steal them away, very blatantly. He did this to me and the rest of my department on the daily. One day I got fed up and messaged one of my coworkers about it pretty much just complaining about him because he had stolen yet another one of my sales. Well, a few hours later I got a response. from the guy I had been complaining about. Turns out I had sent it to an open group chat that included the coworker I was complaining to as well as the coworker I was complaining about. I think I was so traumatized I may I blocked it out because as hard as I think, I can’t remember how I dealt with it. All I know is I unsuccessfully tried to play it off. But I will never forget the awful humiliation

I had been talking to this guy on Bumble for a month or so before we met up. We had been talking about drinking/alcoholism. I’m sober, he wanted to get sober.

I was super into him. We hung out, it went super well, he texted me first after said date. I replied in a normal way. Should have left it there.

2 hours later I texted him 2-3 incredibly long texts about how amazing sobriety is, how much I’ve changed, all these thoughts/theories on alcoholism. Just WAY too much info. He never replied. Still cringing. This happened last weekend and I’m not over it haha

I have an old friend named Jake we were FWB. I blew up my contact list on my cell phone by accident. So, for a while I didn’t know who was texting or calling. I received a text, apologized for not knowing who it was and asked who was texting. He said Jake. So like old times we flirted and sent pics. I get an email from my Jake a couple weeks later saying he lost my number and asked how I was. I laughed and said I just sent you a text, he’s like no you didn’t. The person texting wasn’t Jake. I tried to find out who the other Jake was but couldn’t, I think it may have been my ex or someone I chatted with online who may have actually been named Jake. He refused to tell me. I’m still bitter. It’s upsetting to know I don’t know who has those pics.

Another time not knowing what some emojis meant I sent an unintentionally illicit text to a family member. I’ve still not recovered from that one either. I barely use emojis.

I sent a fucking novel to a colleague to ask her to come back (she's on another location for our job even though it's not really necessary) because I had to do a fuckton shit by myself and needed help. Then I sent her another text in the morning to tell her it was okay I just had a freak out. So I regret all of this interaction.

Not a text but a Sc. I was sending my bf some sexy shower pics and I sent one to my cousin accidentally.

Luckly I was still just barely flashing/teasing so I was mostly covered but god that ended my mood for the night as I sent over thirty panicked texts to my cousin to not check his Sc. He said after my texts he clicked it with his eyes closed as fast as possible.

My poor bf he didn't know why I stopped until the next day.

Background on how that accidentally happened. My cousin and bf are right next to each other on my best friends list and it was a quick send. It wasn't until I had sent it that I realized what happened.

Not mine by my sister’s ex husband just sent her a screenshot of their most recent conversation with “this bitch” in the comments because she asked him a polite question about the child support they just set up. He initially doubled down when she asked him about it because he’s a rude, prideful, shit but he apologized later. I haven’t stopped cringing on his behalf.

this guy i was semi-involved with (aka we were fucking but i wanted it to be a relationship) texted me and told me he was sick with a cold. i told him that i wished i could take care of him, not in a sexy way but just a “i like you & i’d bring you soup” way. he told me that what i said was sweet. but i told my friend about it and she said “yikes that’s kind of a weird thing to say to him don’t you think?” and i regretted it

looking back it was a weird thing to say to someone i wasn’t dating but whatever

It wasn’t a text, but a message on Facebook to someone I know. It was a few years back during a war on his country. I knew it was impulsive and I probably shouldn’t do it, but I couldn’t help myself. I knew he was hurting and I wanted to try and ease the pain even just a little bit. I acted out of emotion, which is something I never, ever do and I deeply regret it.....

I sent the message asking how he and his family are holding up. He said they were ok and then pretended not to know who I was. I was so dumbfounded by the response because I know he knows me. I tried so hard to justify it and see it from his perspective, but I was so hurt. I can’t even put the way I felt into words. It was the only interaction I ever had with that person so that’s the only memory I have of him. It left a very bitter taste in my mouth. I haven’t heard of him ever since and I’ve seen him once after that.

Moral of the story: Always think before you act especially if you’re someone who’s emotion tend to run high, and ALWAYS trust your gut.

I was in the middle of some sexy rp (shh) with a friend, and in my infinite tired oblivious wisdom, sent my response to someone else I wasn't really in contact with. I believe the message wasn't like getting to the point of fucking, might've been on the bj scene. It was descriptive.

I didn't realize till they responded with "what" or "huh", and my stomach dropped when I opened the chat and saw what they were responding to.

I had to own up to it, but I deleted it and was like "haha just some dumb shit I wanted to send to a friend" and they're like "oh haha"

I THEN, IN MY INFINITE TIRED OBLIVIOUS WISDOM, sent a message to my friend about the scenario and my reaction.

Turns out I sent that to the person too.

I deleted that message too, I forgot if anything was said about that one.

Then I noticed for the next week or so there was an uptick of messages from the person asking how I was doing or "hey what's up" and I had to deflect personal sounding questions real hard.

Got a few extra hours working at a nursing home and went in for the initial tour and interviews. I was also planning on dropping acid the next day so on my way home I texted my bud saying something like "dont worry were gonna take the best drug of all time this weekend!" And immediately realized I texted that to the girl giving me the interview. While I'm driving in an unfamiliar part of town, I panicked and started trying to cover my ass saying, like "I'm so sorry that was for my brother, we joke about that all the time!!" All I got was a "no worries." Never did hear back from them after that.....

Hah. I (25f) texted my ex best friend (29m) at like 3am with a funny gif saying “And I miss you” with Terry Crews and a caption like “I miss you dude I hope you’re doing well”
And he texted me back saying, “Sober up buddy. I am absolutely in no way okay with you yet”

I put my gender because it felt so condescending that he was calling me buddy and it was really what made me regret it

While working out of town I send a video to my girlfriend of me masturbating. Just so happens my supervisor has the same first name as my girlfriend and accidentally sent her the video. I got a text back saying . WTFis this about? I almost shit myself. I explained to her and she replied no worries but pretty impressive

Went into labour with my daughter, went to text my SO to tell him it was time to come home from work. Accidentally sent it to my MIL who we had just convinced not to wait in the maternity ward waiting room while I had the baby (which was lucky, because 40hr labour).

I was a jr in college and we had sorority elections, a girl was voted for president and she wasnt my choice so I was mouthing off to people individually via text and I accidentally sent it to her.

She came by my room to confront me (was not hostile, just hurt and like "what did I ever do to you?") At the time I was selfishly focused on what I thought was best and not thinking about the person's feelings. It is the one thing I have always regretted and ashamed of. She handled the situation with such class and I had a lot of respect for her after that. She never told anyone what happened and she truly did not owe me that. We actually became friends during senior year and kept in touch years later.

I was texting with a guy I met online and things were going well, until he made a comment about coming to my work, and would I greet him on my knees with my glasses down seductively, where i belonged? I screenshotted it and sent it to my friend with the caption “barf barf barf.” I went to him by mistake lol. I blocked his number.

I was married to my ex-husband and I boy I was crazy about in high school sent me a message saying how he had always been in love with me and wanted me to know. I know it sounds naive but the message really came across as a thank you and not hitting on me. I replied, “I’m married and you know that. It’s really inappropriate to message me.” I’ve always been a person of principle and have “done the right thing” in every situation. But my heart sank as I sent that message. My marriage was miserable. I wanted so bad to say, “let’s run away together.”

Years later I got divorced and ended up messaging him. He said he was still crazy about me and over the phone things seemed great. Except I still lived in our home town and have three kids so I can’t leave and uproot them from their family here. He had traveled to world and loved it. Never wanted to come “home.” I ghosted him to avoid the only to scenarios I could see. Either he moved home to be with me and hated. Or we had broken hearts because he couldn’t.

there was only one time i REALLY experienced that instant regret. My ex's name was Robert and my friends name was Robyn. Robert and I were going through some shit, and we had a big fight right before he got on a 10 hour plane flight. While he was on the plane, I texted Robyn about how angry I was, and that I was just going to break up with him so I could finally be rid of all the stress and shitty behavior. Except I didnt text Robyn. I texted the other R-O-B name in my contacts. And it took 10 hours until the plane landed and he got the texts. We lasted like 3 more months or something.

Two-ish years ago I had finally broken up with my manipulative, abusive in all ways except physical ex boyfriend of four years. Part of manipulating somebody is isolating them from all their friends and family. Add that onto the part where I was in my darkest point of lifelong depression and was on self pity mode. 😂👌

Well there was one person he didn't get to talk me into hating because I didn't tell him about him. Somebody I used to work with that I'm honestly still low key crushing on because he's still extremely attractive to me but I will absolutely never do anything about it. 😂 I justify still crushing by knowing from Facebook stories that he only really looks at all my selfies. So 🤦‍♀️🤷‍♀️

Aaanyway, long story short. I messaged him on Facebook about a month or something after the breakup. Fucking long ass message about how "you're my only friend" blah blah, "do you want to hang out?" (btw, he wasnt even really my friend at all 😬) And when I mean long I mean basically a fucking novel like this comment.

Immediately regretted it but wtf do you do? Delete the message? Can't. 👌

Obviously I got ghosted. Honestly if I were in his shoes I would've unfriended myself for being kind of creepy. 😂 And as you can tell, I still haven't recovered just because I even fucking scared myself when I sent it.

Thankfully it's been two years since this and I've gotten back to how I should kind of be. At least I'll never do something like that to anyone else again 😂🤞

About a year ago, I accidentally send a couple pictures of my boobs to my dad instead of my fiance (I may or may not have been drunk).

As soon as I realized what I'd done, I sent a long string of texts (hoping to bury the pictures so he didn't see them) that went something like "OMG DON'T LOOK AT THAT JUST DELETE MY TEXTS AND PRETEND THIS NEVER HAPPENED"

We have not discussed it to this day and have been mostly successful in pretending it never happened. I say mostly because things were awkward for a couple of weeks so I assume he saw them, but we're good now.

I regret using snapchat as an all around messaging app. I have problems remembering what I did 5 minutes ago, so when someone responds "hahaha omg that's so funny" I get instantly confused like "what's funny what did I miss?"

Snapchat isnt made for people with poor short term memory, but my tiddy pics arent left sitting in someones text messages that way.

I was arguing with my boss over the phone. It got pretty heated to say the least. When I hung up I text my wife and said "I'm gonna fuckin cut him!" He immediately responds with "wrong person". I simply said " oops awkward" and never acknowledged it again.

Texted something sexual to my husband in the group chat with him, his parents, his brother, and my sister-in-law. His name was the first one in the group of all android users on my Iphone and I didn't realize it wasn't just the chat between him and I until it was FAR too late. No one responded, not even him (thank god), and we have never spoken of it since. We have walked in on his parents having sex midday, so I'm just gonna call it even.

In high school I left my phone unlocked while I was in the bathroom and my cousin texted my crush saying nothing but “hey I’m a level 8 Pokémon trainer” and he never responded. I basically avoided eye contact and would run out of the room every time he walked in for the next year or so.

My partner and I were deciding a break-up. Time zone differences means hes asleep in my day and I am asleep in his day...

I got really high on my day off and was thinking super positively, and thought "nah this is stupid, we dont want to break up! We love each other!" .. so I proceeded to send him around 60 messages consecutively over the space of like 10 hours, outlining all these reasons of how we could make it work and why we should and how beneficial it will be for both of us, insert inspirational love quotes here.

I didnt even realize how crazy that was because I was so high and happy and I wanted to share that with the world, I didnt even think anything of it, thought someone would appreciate that even. Hes someone who works off little communication, hes dissociative when presented with a lot of info...

Basically, he was (understandably) totally overwhelmed and didnt speak to me for a day or two. I spiraled down a path of self pity, humiliation and regret... Particularly after doing some googling and speaking with some close people who made it clear that that is some crazy ass shit.

Sometimes we dont realize how much pressure messaging lots puts on someone else... pretty embarrassing and I just didnt think...

I felt like a high schooler and totaalllyyyyy regretted it. Cant wait til that's locked away in my long term memory and not so fresh.

A few days ago. Asked a question that had been bothering me for a while, which somehow led to me confessing to my gay friend that I used to have a huge crush on before he came out. As soon as I hit send, I died a little inside and wondered why. But we just laughed about it, and the conversation ended with Pokemon... So, yeah.

A picture on my Snapchat memories came up of my ex. It was on Valentines Day from a year ago and I wanted to put it in my story and be like "the last time I had a V-Day date" cause my boyfriend went snowmobiling on Valentine's Day this year.

I decided against it because it would obviously piss him off and I didn't need to fight again.

So I tried to send it to my sister. And I accidentally hit my boyfriends name, and sent him the Snapchat of my ex boyfriend in his underwear, with the caption: "This was the last time I had sex on Valentines Day"

The panic that washed over me was indescribable.

Turns out, you can delete a Snapchat before the other person opens it. That shit probably saved my relationship. He just said "why'd you delete a chat?" And I said "I just wanted to see what it did lol"

accidentally sent screen shots of a conversation to the person in the screenshots 😅 it was meant to go to my sister. he was nice about it and just laughed it off. I had the biggest crush on him so it made it so much worse.

Like 2h ago. Boyfriend came back from an army camp (where he had been for a week) and said he needed to go to his homecity for his modeling agency. That means he could come visit me only for a few hours monday evening+stay the night. I was a bit pissed before he texted me and he was mad because of the camp so i told him it's pointless for him to come here and that he'd just stay in his hometown. He told me to think about what i said so i said im glad that you're back and i'm sorry that i was mad when he happened to be back so that i lashed out.

I took a selfie in just a bra and I looked cute as hell. In my photo gallery, it crops the edges of my photos and it looked like one of my green tank tops. Whatever, didn't think much of it.

Months later, I had forgotten I had even taken that picture. Scrolled through my gallery and found it without expanding, and decided to send it to one of my guy friends for his honest opinion. I did have a crush on this guy, but for various reasons, never told him and never acted on it.

Sent it, didn't pay much attention, then he messaged me back with "uhhh, did you mean to send this to a guy you fancy? Lol" I was confused, looked at the photo, realized I had sent my crush/platonic friend a picture of me in just a lacy bra. Freaked out. Spammed chat to get it out of viewing.

After my [abusive] husband died, I was dating a really great guy who had helped me deal with a lot of my emotional baggage with a sense of humor. We would almost always meet up on Tuesdays because I didn't have to work the next morning.

One Monday morning, after texting back and forth with him for a bit, I got a text alert that asked if I wanted to meet up the next night (Tuesday) for a celebration dinner. Tuesday was my husband's birthday, and he knew that.

I once messaged my crush Alex a text about condoms he could grab from my place instead of my male friend Alex. And it was like really ... cringe worthy about condoms because it sounded like my friend Alex wasn’t planning on using condones since he couldn’t get anyone pregnant (gay male)

I was on a work trip with a girl that I really didn’t get along with (she was mostly fine but our personalities clash super hard). She suggested that we get an early start in the morning, so at 6am I’m waiting at our meet spot, 6:15 comes around and I call her and she’s waking up in her hotel room. I texted my best friend something along the lines of “🙄 rude girl told me to meet her at 6 and she’s just now waking up”. Sent it to rude girl instead of best friend. That was an awkward day of working together.

I was arguing with my sons dad, and sent a text to my husband basically saying that I had a shitty and pointless conversation with him that ruined my day. Turns out the text didn't make it to my husband, because it went to my sons dad. I just owned it, what else can you do? He called, I apologized, and we talked stuff out. I was mortified, im glad I didnt say something worse, as I was pretty angry at the time.

One time I was drinking like fool at my place of employment and since I knew the bartender he was feeding me top shelf Laphroaig at no charge.

My partner had skipped out of joining me and I couldn't miss out of the opportunity to rub his nose in it a little because Laphroaig was one of favourites.

I sent him a text about drinking much of the bottle to myself on the house. BUT I had accidentally (read: drunkenly) texted my boss instead!! We're friends and her text happened to be open but I assumed it was his.

As soon as I hit send I realised what I'd done and ran downstairs as fast as I could. I told my boss that I had meant to send my partner a text but accidentally sent it to her. I told her it was so dirty that I couldn't have her see it and begged her to let me delete it before she read it. She kindly unlocked her phone and let me delete it.

It was a small town and we're all still friends but I still don't think she ever thought much of it.

Not me but my best friend. She bought her first house at age 50, immediately remodeled the bathroom. She took a picture of it to send to friends and family, only she didn't notice her reflection in the mirror. She didn't have pants on.

I texted to L that she was invited to my BDSM party. Turned out to be the wrong L and was instead my neighbor who had no clue about my BDSM proclivities. She and her husband do now and we crack jokes about it 😈

I had a boyfriend (my husband now) but I had started texting my ex again because his grandpa passed away. His grandpa was a WW2 vet an I worked for a member of Congress who was presenting the family with an award or recognition of some kind. Anyway, we were chatting a bit and I was offering my condolence, etc. The next day, I texted him again to ask a question about his hometown, since I was there for work. I ended up sending a text later that said “I love you, babe.” Which was meant for my boyfriend. It was pretty shitty because I don’t know that he was over me at that point and obviously vulnerable from losing his grandpa. I wanted to die.

I was on the receiving end of text and seems like it wasn't something she regrets.So last year my granny from my mom's side passed away. I shared the news with my friend and she replied with hahaha and two laughing crying emoji. I tried to make sure she wasn't getting mixed with another conversation by asking are you serious and blah blah.
I didn't talk to her for a week and waited for an apology. Nope, she didn't. I then asked her straight about that cause it bothered me so much and she said she was laughing at "something else". To this date she hasn't properly acknowledged it.

I was having a discussion with someone. We even agreed to settle the differences and move forward after the incident. When the other started saying thank you, I felt that it was so fake. I snapped and sent a message about hypocrisy. I didn't get any replies since then. Haha. All our efforts of a long discussion so we could agree to disagree went in vain just because of that single message. Lol

I was having a discussion with someone. We even agreed to settle the differences and move forward after the incident. When the other started saying thank you, I felt that it was so fake. I snapped and sent a message about hypocrisy. I didn't get any replies since then. Haha. All our efforts of a long discussion to agree and disagree went in vain just because of that single message. Lol

I sent a screen shot text of our convo to my boyfriend during an arguement to prove a point, but I had changed his name to just his first initial and he was really hurt. I actually haven't recovered :/

Was in a text convo with a big sales prospect (the biggest of my life) and a friend at the same time who was telling me about another mutual friend who is dating a 20+ years older guy openly for his money. She sent me a photo of the guy (look up Ernest Borgnine - but obese) and I edited the photo with a big NOPE and circled the dude for reference. I accidentally sent the doctored pic to the sales prospect instead and had to awkwardly explain and not look like a petty person. Worse thing was that the prospect had been pretty flirty with me (not encouraged) and physically resembled the guy in the photo but was not the same ethnicity. I died. Managed to somehow still close the sale eventually but that goes down as the worst text in my working history.

I was talking about the senior manager at an old job. I accidentally sent the text to him. After essentially sealing my fate I figured what the hell and sent him another text saying, "Haha oops. But yeah you're being a dick."

About 4 years into my current relationship, I texted my best friend since high school to tell her that I had deep feelings for her. I had since high school. But I was in a happy relationship with my girlfriend and I really loved her. she texted me back and told me that she felt the same and I started to panic, so I ghosted her. I don't know what made me send it or what I was expecting, but I just had to get that off my chest. I haven't talked to her since, and I've been with my girlfriend for 6 years now and we're happy, and she recently just got engaged so that's good. In the end I just didn't push it any further. I'd never have cheated on my girlfriend, and I do truly love her, and as bad as it is to lose a friend, I'm glad I ended the our friendship ended there. It was a good end to that chapter of my life, and it really helped me reevaluate what I want.

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1) Was like a year and a half ago I was way more into this guy than he was into me(he led me on for an ego boost) and I like... Apologized to him for trying to hit on him at a party where he was flirting with me but then... brought another girl. And I thought the apology would lead to him also apologizing but he just said "were all good ;)" made me feel like a huge piece of shit. Rinse repeat for a year.

And then 2) was around four or five years ago, I was about 17/18, very very late bloomer. Got hit on at a gas station while my mom was filling up gas by some 26 y/o shmo. I was totally not used to the attention and instantly gave him my number. We went on a date, he was kind of an obnoxious dick(mentioned reading ana karinena maybe 7 times in 3 minutes apropos of nothing )
Took me to the beach on the first date(I was also not aware of that stereotype of take a girl to the beach to see her w/o makeup... Which is def what he was doing). Took me on his moped and i was so scared of the speed anytime he sped I grabbed him really tight but not in a cute way, in a "digging-my-nails-into-you-out-of-fear" way, so naturally he sped every time we were on the road. Dick. Anyways after the date he drives me home, shoves his tongue way down my throat and drives off like he's got the biggest dick in town. After the fact I decide never to see him again and he texts me a picture of himself in the spare moped helmet i wore making a silly face. My dumb ass screenshotted it and sent it back to him instead of my bff. Played it off like a texting mistake. He believed me. Shrug. I also moved countries like two weeks later and I told him this at the date but he continued texting me for a while until I eventually just said "look im 17 im not looking for a long distance boyfriend" at which point he turned full niceguy™ and told me "who was talking about being your boyfriend don't be so full of yourself you're such a bitch". Ho hum.

Tl;dr apologized when a guy was a dick to me to get one back but just got a "forgiving" text and texted a bad date a picture of himself that he sent me.. Yikes.

One of our housemates does bugger-all around the house and leaves it in a tip. I wasn’t bitchy, but asked him to clean his stuff, then (thinning I was talking to someone else..) complained about him... except I sent it to the guy I was complaining about...

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I got really drunk and decided to text my crush (who was also a good friend of mine) if he wanted to hook up. Luckily, i texted “want to book hop” instead..... it forced me to just admit my feelings for him the next day and we’ve been dating ever since!

A few years ago I was showing off to my mates saying the new girl at work kept on messaging me without me replying.. what actually happened is I had deleted a few of the texts I had sent to her inbetween which made her look really beggy.

As I clicked on the photo to forward on to my mates I got distracted and completely forgot what I was doing then when I looked down at my phone again to message her I realised I had accidentally sent her the screenshot.

My recovery was just to completely ignore the whole situation. That worked fine until the second I saw her at work and went as red as the sun.